ROGERS, Sir Edward (c.1500-68), of Cannington, Som.

Family and Education

b. c. 1500, 1st s. of George Rogers of Langport by his w. Elizabeth. m. Mary, da. and coh. of Sir John Lisle of the Isle of Wight, 1s. George ?3da. suc. fa. Sept. 1524. Kntd. 22 Feb. 1547.DNB; C142/41/1; PCC 24 Bodfelde, 11 Babington; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. xi), 128; Lit. Rems. Ed. VI (Roxburghe Club), i. p. cccii.

Offices Held

Esquire of the body by Dec. 1534; bailiff of Hammes and Sangatte, Calais Dec. 1534 – Oct. 1540; j.p.q. Dorset Mar. 1538–40, Som. Mar. 1538–53, from c. 1559; sewer of the chamber by 1540, carver by 1544, gent. of privy chamber Oct. 1549 – July 1553, v.-chamberlain Nov. 1558 – Jan. 1559, comptroller of the Household by 21 Jan. 1559; PC by 27 Nov. 1558.LP Hen. VIII , vii. 598; xiii(1), p. 409; xvi. 98; xvii. 700; xix(1), p. 504; xx(2) p. 117; Genealogist, n.s. xxx. 19; Lansd. 2, f. 34; APC, ii. 345; CSP Span. 1558–67, p. 6; CPR, 1558–60, p. 59; Strype, Annals, i(2), p. 390.

Parlimentarian

ROGERS, Sir Edward (1498/1502-68), of Cannington, Som.

Main residence: Cannington, Som.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

ROGERS, Sir Edward (c.1500-68)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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